'Women are doing the majority of the unpaid work in the world,' says PattyArquette. 'It’s not sustainable.'
Patricia Arquette is one of Hollywood’s most outspoken feminists. Here, the Oscar-winning actor opens up about finding time for activism, fighting for equal pay, and feeling for her embattled co-star Felicity Huffman
We are on the phone to talk about her latest film, Otherhood, which premiered in theaters and on Netflix August 2. It’s a “momedy” starring Arquette, Angela Bassett, and Felicity Huffman as three upper-middle-class empty nesters whose lives haven’t turned out how they expected. Having prioritized motherhood for decades, the trio is now struggling to find themselves, so they descend on their sons in New York City in an awkward attempt to reclaim the status they feel they’ve lost.
It was a perfect speech, followed by an imperfect post-award interview, in which Arquette awkwardly and unnecessarily singled out people of color and gay rights activists as folks who now need to step up to the plate for women’s equal pay. It wasn’t a great sound bite, and was called out on social media for being an example of white feminism. Arquette later addressed these criticisms on Twitter by posting, “Guess which women are the most negatively effected in wage inequality? Women of color.
Despite the dire need for progress in this regard, Arquette acknowledges that the struggle for women’s rights is still moving in the right direction, both politically and culturally. “We have more representation in political office, and women also have more representation in daily life,” she notes. “I was just in the airport in Paris, and I saw more women of color on magazine covers on the newsstand than I have ever seen in my life. I saw none of those women on covers when I was a kid.
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